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Hosea 13:1 KJV
Hosea · chapter 13 · verse 1
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.Hosea 13:1 · King James Version
Hosea 13:1 in context
1When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
2And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- tremblingrᵉthêthterrorH7578 →
- offendedʼâshamto be guiltyH816 →
- EphraimʼEphrayimEphrajim, a son of JosephH669 →
- exaltednâsâʼto lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relativeH5375 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- spakedâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
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Idolatry was the sin that did most easily beset the Jewish nation till after the captivity; the ten tribes from the first were guilty of it, but especially after the days of Ahab; and this is the sin which, in these verses, they are charged with. Observe, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-4